Notices by Brewster Kahle (brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org)

"Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools"

“At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves. But they aren’t scrubbing for dust. They’re scrubbing for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement and anything else related to diversity, equity and inclusion,” Clarkeville Now reports.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250214041524/https://clarksvillenow.com/local/books-mentioning-slavery-civil-rights-removed-from-shelves-at-fort-campbell-schools/

Internet Archive Canada helping archive government websites and documents-- so important (we have all come to realize)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-us-medical-environmental-data-1.7457627

I just got this popup by visiting nytimes.com-- frightening.

it says it gives tracking info to 207 companies, including precise geolocation for tracking physical in-store purchases (what?).

oh, and the link to the 207 companies list ones that are absolutely frightening. I am a paying subscriber and they do to subscribers (if they innocently say yes)? is this for real?

Is this popup only because I am in Europe, and it is on monday morning at 6am? Anyone else?

FAA Key Officials

Jan 16 all positions are staffed https://web.archive.org/web/20250116202415/https://www.faa.gov/about/key_officials

Jan 29 half (9 of 18) are "Vacant"
https://web.archive.org/web/20250129122818/https://www.faa.gov/about/key_officials

(via antoine)

@modulux

Indeed, Europe is encouraging cultural heritage organizations and research organizations to do text and datamining (AI research) through regulatory clarity.

This is inspiring..

... The victory
of the litigants in the many pending lawsuits against AI companies may lead
to legal regimes that ultimately impose ruinous monetary damages, allow
the extraction of burdensome settlements, and in extreme cases result in the
court-ordered destruction of AI models themselves. All would do great harm to
the emerging market of products and services leveraging the technology."

fascinating, articulate, and worth thinking about.

"Copyright, AI, and Great Power Competition" from Foundation for American Innovation

concluding: "The legal battles around AI and copyright raise the specter that a domestic,
commercial squabble of interests might prevent the United States from
retaining its edge in the global competition around the technology. ....

important report: "Copyright, AI, and Great Power Competition" from Foundation for American Innovation

Section titles: "Getting Copyright Wrong Means Falling behind China"

"Copyright Maximalism Supports Chinese Model Developers
and the CCP’s AI Ambitions"

They write off Europe in AI presumably because of their copyright regulations.

https://www.thefai.org/posts/copyright-ai-and-great-power-competition

@phillycodehound @internetarchive

Glad you like them. So much talent. I suggest trying more of them. here is a link to a playlist of them:

https://ia800606.us.archive.org/31/items/2025-contest/2025-contest.htm

try it out!

@internetarchive

Some I thought should be honored:

A tribute to 'mansplaining': https://archive.org/details/road-trip_202501

Hilarious:
https://archive.org/details/the-general-line-remix

https://archive.org/details/afarewelltoarms_202501

@internetarchive

Honorable Mention – History: “Moving Pictures Aren’t What They Used to Be” by Jeremy Floyd

https://archive.org/details/moving-pictures-arent-what-they-used-to-be

Honorable Mention – Home Movies: “Hoffman’s Honeymoon” by William Webb
https://archive.org/details/hoffmanns-honeymoon-1

Honorable Mention – Live Action: “The Wayback Machine” by Diego Diaz & Can Sark
https://archive.org/details/wayback-machine-4k

so good. and a bit more:

2025 Public Domain Day Film contest winners & honorable mentions: (from @internetarchive 2-3 minutes and great!) blog post: https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/23/2025-public-domain-day-film-remix-contest-winners-announced/

First Place: “When I Leave the World Behind” by Queline Meadows https://archive.org/details/when_i_leave_the_world_behind_remix

Second Place: “The Archive Boogie” by Samantha Close. https://archive.org/details/the-archive-boogie

Third Place: “THE SITUATIONSHIP” by Samara Meyer
https://archive.org/details/the-situationship

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Public Domain 1929 Party at the Internet Archive in San Francisco on Wednesday night. Please come!

Great works are going Open, celebrate with a remix film contest winners and period drinks and party.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/celebrate-public-domain-day-2025-at-the-internet-archive-tickets-1117297439719

@via Pls dont leave San Francisco-- lets build great things here.

wow: nytimes: "Biden’s Push to Cancel Student Debt Surpasses 5 Million Borrowers

With Monday’s authorization and 27 previous ones, the Biden administration has forgiven over $180 billion in student loans, even as its larger policy vision never took root."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/us/politics/biden-student-loan-forgiveness.html

must be such a relief. and for 5 million students.

@FeelingJalapeno @internetarchive

thank you. it has been a long time since we have looked at the torrent creation code.

I will pass it on.

@FeelingJalapeno @internetarchive

yes, that is another thing we are looking to do-- make the reviews more distinct.

"Review Spam," or commercially motivated posts, on the Internet Archive spiked to 99.9% of our reviews just before the election and when we were hit with a cyber attack and ddos.

When we recovered, spam outnumbered real reviews 20-to-1.

It has always been a cat-and-mouse game, but the mice became RoboMice.

So now the @internetarchive has RoboKitties!

RoboKitties-- Go Eat them RoboMice! (Robokitties are currently winning.)

@effingcomputer I dont know, if you do a comparison, pls post the results.

@niutech I will try it with something huge. I have run into the size limits....